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I wonder how many ice cars caught at the same time somewhere else in the world? I'm no more worried about this happening to our ev as I am a plane falling on me when I walk outside.

EV's have a similar risk to catching fire as other vehicle types but the battery fire is another matter.

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EV's have a similar risk to catching fire as other vehicle types but the battery fire is another matter.

02.3 Key findings | EV Fire Safe

What has our EV battery fire research found? For starters, electrocution is far less likely (almost impossible) than originally thought...

www.evfiresafe.com

The stats say EV’s are much less likely than ICE vehicles to catch fire in the first place … it’s likely because they’re not pumping flammable hydrocarbons around pipes that can potentially leak.

If the battery happens to discharge in a fire, though, it can be very … intense. Given that in Australia a high percentage of new cars are EV’s (last month as many EV’s were sold as petrol-powered), the fact that there are so very few EV fires kinda shows how low the chance of that runaway battery fire happening is. Especially given that most of those EV cars are CCP cars with … “buyer beware” expectations on build-quality.